PURPOSE: This study was to verify the effect of muscle strengthening exercises using a Thera-Band on the lower limbs. METHODS: The design utilized for this study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. A control group (16) and experimental group (16) were selected from stroke patients of K Oriental Medicine Hospital who were hospitalized for 5 months from December 2005 through April 2006. While only acupuncture therapy and physical therapy were used on the control group, acupuncture, physical therapy and additional muscle strengthening exercises using a red thera band were used on the experimental group. Muscle strengthening was performed 20 minutes per session, more than one session a day for 4 weeks. Hypotheses for this study were verified using Two-way repeated ANOVA and ANCOVA using a pre test score as a covariate. RESULTS: The experimental group with thera band muscle strengthening exercises showed a decrease in asymmetry weight loading percentage(F=14.704, P= .010), range of knee (Z=-3.15, P= .001) & deep tendon reflex score(Z=-2.52, P= .012) and moving performance(F=12.328, P= .001)compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: It is confirmed that muscle strengthening exercises using a Thera-Band can be used as an effective nursing intervention to improve the function of the lower limb of hemiplegic stroke patients.
Acupuncture Therapy ; Aged ; Data Interpretation, Statistical ; Exercise Therapy/*methods ; Female ; Hemiplegia/*therapy ; Humans ; Knee Joint/physiology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Muscle Strength/physiology ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Stroke/*therapy

The incidence of pregnancy in a rudimentary uterine horn is very rare. We experienced a case of unruptured rudimentary uterine horn pregnancy in the first trimester. The patient was diagnosed by laparoscopy and removed by laparoscopic resection of the pregnant rudimentary uterine horn. We report our case with brief review of literatures.
Animals ; Diagnosis* ; Female ; Horns* ; Humans ; Incidence ; Laparoscopy* ; Pregnancy Trimester, First ; Pregnancy*